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BOSWELL. I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . .
JOHNSON. That, Sir, I find, is what a very...
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
DULL. 8. To make dictionaries is dull work.
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-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18...
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the...
Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind...
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite...
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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-- Samuel Johnson,...
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
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COUGH: A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity.
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with...
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink...
Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
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Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy!
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Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the...
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. . . . He whom nature has made...